Curriculum Vitae

National Policing Institute · Arlington, VA

• Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance: Spearheaded enterprise-wide adoption of Anthropic models (Claude) across the institute; co-authored organizational AI acceptable use and governance policies establishing compliance frameworks, privacy standards, and ethical guardrails.
• RAG Architecture & Knowledge Systems: Architected and deployed an internal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vector database indexing historical proposals, past performance data, and staff CVs/subject-matter expertise to streamline organizational knowledge retrieval and accelerate proposal authoring.
• Agentic Workflows & Automation: Developed custom organizational AI skills and automated pipelines using Claude Code and Python, reducing statement of work (SOW) and proposal creation turnaround time by 80% while improving proposal consistency and technical quality.
• AI Research Principal Investigator: Directs federally funded research initiatives evaluating and operationalizing artificial intelligence applications, including multi-modal analysis and NLP models for body-worn camera video and text data in public safety.
• Organizational Enablement & Upskilling: Led change management through recurring interactive workshops, prompt engineering seminars, and open forums to build organization-wide AI competency and technical literacy.
• Strategic Technology Partnerships: Negotiated and secured the organization's first commercial technology licensing agreements and AI partnerships to expand data analytics, consulting capabilities, and software infrastructure.

National Policing Institute · Arlington, VA

• Designed and executed complex, data-driven empirical research assessments analyzing organizational structures, workload distribution, resource allocation, and operational efficiency across public institutions.
• Developed and authored comprehensive federal, state, and local grant proposals and competitive RFP responses, formulating experimental hypotheses, sampling designs, and rigorous evaluation methodologies.
• Provided expert technical advisory across multi-stakeholder engagements involving data infrastructure modernization, analytics workflows, and organizational transformation.

Centene Corporation · St. Louis, MO

• Led cross-functional analytics and engineering teams implementing enterprise-wide operational improvements and KPI monitoring platforms across multi-million record transactional and healthcare databases.
• Designed and managed robust data pipeline infrastructure supporting real-time executive decision-making, performance tracking, and cost optimization initiatives across diverse business units.
• Established and administered enterprise ServiceNow workflows to govern data engineering pipelines, resolve data quality issues, and ensure system reliability and data integrity.

St. Louis County Police Department · St. Louis, MO

• Founded, built, and managed the organization's first Crime Analysis Unit, leading a cross-functional team of 10 research analysts delivering business intelligence, predictive modeling, and strategic analytical support.
• Managed strategic procurement, empirical evaluation, and operational deployment of enterprise technology solutions exceeding $5 million, including predictive analytics platforms, sensor networks, and body-worn camera systems.
• Developed and deployed open data visualization platforms using ArcGIS, improving data transparency, accessibility, and stakeholder engagement through open data initiatives.
• Directed agency-wide policy development and compliance management, authoring organizational data policies and ensuring adherence to state and federal regulatory standards.
• Implemented departmental performance management systems that established unified single sources of truth for operational KPIs and executive decision-making.
• Spearheaded advanced spatial-temporal statistical modeling to optimize field operations and resource deployment.

Webster University · St. Louis, MO

• Taught 'GIS in Criminology,' instructing undergraduate and graduate students in spatial analytics, geoprocessing workflows, spatial statistics, and applied geographic data science using ESRI software.

University of Missouri–St. Louis

Specialization in Quantitative Methodology & Institutional Theory · Dissertation: Determinants of police department change: An institutional theory approach

Lindenwood University

Business administration and organizational management

Prosci®

Change management methodology and institutional adoption frameworks

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Competitively selected for national fellowship program recognizing emerging leaders in evidence-based research, law enforcement data science, and technology evaluation.

National Institute of Justice (NIJ) · $1,000,000 (Co-Author)

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) · $950,000 (Co-Author)

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) · $690,400 (Co-Author)

Bureau of Justice Assistance (TIPS) · $400,000 (Author & Program Manager)

Prince William County, VA · $250,000 (Principal Investigator & Author)

Washington State Department of Commerce · $195,000 (Principal Investigator & Author)

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) · $70,000 (Co-Author)

Improving Police Encounters in Pedestrian Stops Using Procedural Justice

Conference on Evidence-Based Solutions in a Global Policing World, University of Cambridge, UK (2026)

Evidence to Outcomes: Applying Research to Improve Officer Health and Wellness

Howard C. Liebengood Foundation Symposium, Washington, DC (2026)

National Policing Institute and Zencity Launch Inaugural Nationwide Public Safety Confidence Index

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference, Denver, CO (2025)

Multi-modal Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Recordings: Evaluating Novel Methods for Measuring Police Implementation of Procedural Justice

American Society of Evidence-Based Policing Conference, Tucson, AZ (2025)

Specialized Units: How They Can Help and How They Can Hurt

IACP Annual Conference, Boston, MA (2024)

Examining Officer Use of Force in a Large County Police Department

American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2024)

Strengthening Internal Accountability Through Data Analytics

Public Safety Partnership Conference, Minneapolis, MN (2024)

Smart Cities Technology Panel

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Washington, DC (2024)

Automating Data Analysis and Reporting with R

International Association of Crime Analysts Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA (2017)

The Bureaucratic Challenges of Civil Unrest: Managing Crisis in Ferguson, Missouri

Midwest Public Affairs Conference, Milwaukee, WI (2015)